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The third action was at kietfontein on Tuesday. General White

had ordered General Yule, in command at Glencoe after General Symons was wounded, to join forces with him at Ladysmith, as Glencoe was not tenable by so small a body of men in face of a Boer advance in force. In order to cover this retreat, General White sent out troops to attack a Boer commando which was on the west of the railway line. This they did, the field tactics being again the same. After our object of keeping the Boers from interfering with General Yule's march had been effected by driving them from the ridges they had occupied, our troops returned to Ladysmith, and on Wednesday General Yule's command, tired out but in excellent spirits, came into camp.

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